En faisant attention aux détails de ce que disent les gens, nous pouvons améliorer notre compréhension de leur "Perspective" personelle. Des vidéoclips d'interviews de toutes sortes de personnes peuvent nous éclairer sur leur point de vue et leurs valeurs, et nous montrer ce qui a vraiment de l'importance pour eux. Un peu de recherche peut ensuite nous permettre d'approfondir. http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/vid-persp/
6 milliards d'autres : In 2003, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, with Sybille d’Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire, launched the project “6 Billion Others”.
5,000 interviews were filmed in 75 countries by 6 directors who went in search of the Others.From a Brazilian fisherman to a Chinese shopkeeper, from a German performer to an Afghan farmer, all answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals, hopes: What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you? Forty or so questions that help us to find out what separates and what unites us. These portraits of humanity today, and more, are accessible on this website. (Click on "recherche" to see the various themes.)
The baggage we carry with us on the train of life includes language, culture, and our personal circumstances and experiences.
Our Cultural Baggage
Culture Crossing - A community built guide to cross-cultural etiquette & understanding
Video showing a number of cultural gaffes
Peace Corps Culture Matters Workbook
Does your language shape how you think?
French and American Cultures
La Perspective Culturelle - activités de Mme Theisen
En faisant attention aux détails de ce que disent les gens, nous pouvons améliorer notre compréhension de leur "Perspective" personelle. Des vidéoclips d'interviews de toutes sortes de personnes peuvent nous éclairer sur leur point de vue et leurs valeurs, et nous montrer ce qui a vraiment de l'importance pour eux. Un peu de recherche peut ensuite nous permettre d'approfondir.
http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/vid-persp/
Préjugés et stéréotypes
Stereotypes - What the French think about Americans, and vice versa
What is the American stereotype?
Cliché - la France vue de l'étranger
Intercultural Differences - with a quiz "How insular are you?"
French Attitudes French Values
What the French do not understand about America and Americans
Miroirs - adaptez une démarche interculturelle
les gestes
Que dit-on avec les mains? (exercises pour étudiants de français et espagnol) fiches:
icônes culturelles de la France
Love to know French culture
Superstitions
la civilisation française - site magnifique de Marie Ponterio
European Union
Symboles et drapeaux des pays variés
We are the World
Exercises:
D'une culture a l'autre
Mon portrait - try at least two of these quizzes. (Most are in English). What did you learn about yourself?
Connaissez- vous bien la France? Quiz sur héros et personnages populaires
Les maudits français (Lynda Lemay, Québécoise, chante de la France et les français)
Aller plus loin en lisant Sixty Million Frenchmen can't be wrong French or Foe Cultural Misunderstandings:The French American Experience
6 milliards d'autres : In 2003, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, with Sybille d’Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire, launched the project “6 Billion Others”.
5,000 interviews were filmed in 75 countries by 6 directors who went in search of the Others.From a Brazilian fisherman to a Chinese shopkeeper, from a German performer to an Afghan farmer, all answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals, hopes: What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you? Forty or so questions that help us to find out what separates and what unites us. These portraits of humanity today, and more, are accessible on this website. (Click on "recherche" to see the various themes.)